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Jay, John C. (John Clarkson), 1808-1891. Shells : miscellaneous plates.

Title: Shells : miscellaneous plates. [between 1850 and 1891]

ArchivalResource: [40] leaves of plates : all ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40827135 View

Carmichael, Emmett B. Pamphlets vertical file--persons, [ca.1835]-[ca.1835]-

Title: Pamphlets vertical file--persons, [ca.1835]-[ca.1835]-

The Pamphlets vertical files--persons consists of pamphlets about individuals or families from Alabama primarily. In portraying the lives of these individuals, aspects of the political, social, and military history of the state are also discussed.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic ft. (5 archives boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122330822 View

John Edward Gray papers, 1783-1884, 1783-1884

Title: John Edward Gray papers, 1783-1884 1783-1884

These are primarily letters to Gray on various aspects of natural history, with many references to collections at the British Museum of Natural History. There are numerous letters from British scientists and from European colleagues. There are letters from Americans too, such as those from Agassiz which relate to his Florida expeditions and the creation of natural history collections.

ArchivalResource: 5.0 Linear feet, Ca. 500 items.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.G784-ead.xml View

William L. Marcy Collection, 1821-1857

Title: William L. Marcy Collection 1821-1857

Papers of the U.S. Senator (1831-1833); New York State Governor (1833-1838); U.S. Secretary of War under James K. Polk (1845-1849); U.S. Secretary of State under Franklin Pierce (1853-1857). Incoming and outgoing letters concerning a wide variety of subjects such as the establishment of the State Geological Survey (G. W. Boyd, T. A. Conrad, John Delafield, Lardner Vanuxem); the use of volunteers for military service during the 1845-1848 war with Mexico (Silas Wright), the settlement of the New York-New Jersey boundary dispute (Andrew Jackson), the appropriation of public funds (Levi Woodbury, William C. Bouck), and the establishment of a State institution for the mentally handicapped (James B. Richards).

ArchivalResource: 42 letters (SC)

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/m/marcy_wl.htm View

Jones, T. Rupert (Thomas Rupert), 1819-1911. Geology and palaeontology of North America / Jones, Conrad, Roemer, Koch.

Title: Geology and palaeontology of North America / Jones, Conrad, Roemer, Koch. [1832]-[1858].

ArchivalResource: 16 items in 1 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51996957 View

Conrad, T. A. (Timothy Abbott), 1803-1877. Conrad's ms. notes towards a monograph of the Pandoridae.

Title: Conrad's ms. notes towards a monograph of the Pandoridae. 1865-1866.

ArchivalResource: 6 items ; 18-23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39882953 View

Samuel George Morton Papers, 1819-1850

Title: Samuel George Morton Papers 1819-1850

Through his craniometic studies of human races, the Philadelphia physician Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) exerted a profound influence on the development of physical anthropology in antebellum America, and made substantial contributions to mineralogy, paleontology, and natural history. Relating primarily to Morton's scientific interests, the Morton Papers include insights into Morton's perspectives on education, medical practice, geology and mineralogy, craniology, paleontology, the Wilkes Exploring Expedition (also known as the United States Exploring Expedition 1838-1842), and his two major monographs, the and . Several of the letters were written by Morton in his capacity as corresponding secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Also included in this collection are Morton's "Some Remarks on the Infrequency of Mixed Offspring Between the European and Australian Races" (1850), Joseph Barclay Pentland's notes on the aborigines of Peru (ca. 1840?), and newspaper clippings on Morton's death; a diary of Morton's trip to the West Indies, 1834, a set of craniological sketches for use in Crania Americana, and a microfilm of letters in private hands, written to Morton, 1838-1844 Crania Americana Crania Aegyptiaca

ArchivalResource: 2.25 Linear feet; 5 boxes, bound volumes, microfilm

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M843-ead.xml View